{"id":3735,"date":"2020-08-19T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2020-09-02T20:47:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T18:47:27","slug":"a-splendid-fine-art-photograph-of-audrey-hepburn-by-norman-parkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/a-splendid-fine-art-photograph-of-audrey-hepburn-by-norman-parkinson\/","title":{"rendered":"A splendid fine art photograph of Audrey Hepburn by Norman Parkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Norman PARKINSON (1913-1990)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fashion photographer and portrait painter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1913 in Great Britain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/our-artists\/norman-parkinson\/\"><strong>Norman Parkinson<\/strong><\/a> has developed over nearly 5 decades a particular and innovative style which makes him one of the most important photographers of the <strong>20th century<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His contribution to fashion photography is capital, nature lover since always (he was raised in the countryside and created a farm in Tobago), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/our-artists\/norman-parkinson\/\"><strong>Norman Parkinson<\/strong><\/a> is the photographer who, at the turn of the Second World War, made take the models out of the photo studios and set them up in natural surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is also one of those who contributed to the emergence of the phenomenon of model &#8220;<strong>starization<\/strong>&#8220;, it was he who discovered and contributed to <strong>Jerry Hall<\/strong>&#8216;s fame in the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Norman Parkinson has worked for many years with <strong>Vogue magazine<\/strong> (English and American version) as well as practically all fashion magazines, <strong>Life<\/strong>, <strong>Haper\u2019s Bazaar<\/strong>, <strong>Cosmopolitan<\/strong>, <strong>Glamor<\/strong>, <strong>Vanity Fair<\/strong> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the one who said of himself, &#8220;I am the most unknown of famous photographers&#8221; remains largely unknown to the general public today. These compositions by women, imbued with elegance and that very British distinction, are today celebrated and collected around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The photograph of <strong>Audrey Hepburn<\/strong> wearing a Givenchy dress (1955, Villa Rolli, Italy), is the perfect representation of the image of the woman \/ flower in all its glory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/audrey-hepburn-photographed-by-norman-parkinson.jpg\" alt=\"Audrey Hepburn photographed by Norman Parkinson\" width=\"969\" height=\"1239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/audrey-hepburn-photographed-by-norman-parkinson.jpg 969w, https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/audrey-hepburn-photographed-by-norman-parkinson-300x384.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/audrey-hepburn-photographed-by-norman-parkinson-600x767.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/audrey-hepburn-photographed-by-norman-parkinson-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/audrey-hepburn-photographed-by-norman-parkinson-801x1024.jpg 801w, https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/audrey-hepburn-photographed-by-norman-parkinson-768x982.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/audrey-hepburn-photographed-by-norman-parkinson-700x895.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Audrey Hepburn II, Italy 1955. Photographed wearing a Givenchy afternoon cocktail dress from his Spring\/Summer 1955 collection at \u00ab Villa Rolli \u00bb for Glamour magazine &#8211; 30&#215;40 inches &#8211; posthumous C-type print. Estate-stamped and numbered on reverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman PARKINSON (1913-1990) &nbsp; Fashion photographer and portrait painter &nbsp; Born in 1913 in Great Britain, Norman Parkinson has developed over nearly 5 decades a particular and innovative style which makes him one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. &nbsp; His contribution&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ferus-gallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}